Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI; Arabic: الاتحاد الإسلامي, lit. 'The Islamic Union') was an Islamist politico-military group in Somalia. Formed in 1983 through...
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May 2015) was a Somali Islamist who was a senior leader within al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) and the Islamic Courts Union (ICU). He later founded the...
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Hassan Dahir Aweys (category Al-Shabaab (militant group) members)
start of the Civil War, beginning with Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya from 1991. After the effective dissolution of Al-Itihaad in 1997, he became the head of an Islamic...
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2017 Al-Ittihad, Ramallah, a town in the Palestinian territories Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, an Islamist militant group in Somalia that was active from 1992...
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Somali National Front (section Conflict with Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya and early Sharia Courts (1994 - 1996))
erupted near Kenya's border city of Mandera during clashes between Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) and the SNF, backed by Ethiopian Air Force helicopter gunships...
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region, primarily the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya (AIAI). The war in the region began in 1992, when the Ethiopian...
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by a variety of Somali Islamic groups within the city. Notably, Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, a prominent Somali Islamist militant organization that had previously...
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but also to the older al-Ittihad al-Islamiya, a group founded on the tenets of Salafism and opposition to clannism. Many early al-Shabaab leaders had also...
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Leaders: Hassan Dahir Aweys, Abdullahi Ali Afrah (aasbaro) Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki Area of Operations: Southwest (Ras Kamboni, Luuq) Religious Affiliations:Sunni...
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List of designated terrorist groups (redirect from Jamiat al-Islah al-Idzhtimai)
Organizations listed by the United Nations Security Council ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee. Below is the list of organizations that have officially...
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Masood Azhar (category People designated by the Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee)
traveled to Nairobi, Kenya to meet with leaders of al-Itihaad al-Islamiya[citation needed], an al-Qaeda-aligned Somali group, who had requested money...
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fought side by side against UNOSOM forces. Somali fighters from Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya also joined the battle. On the morning of 3 October 1993, a locally...
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al-Quaida". Archived from the original on 4 March 2017. Thomas Joscelyn (19 November 2014). "UN recognizes ties between Ansar al Sharia in Libya, al Qaeda"...
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existing Somali political entities in the Ogaden, the ONLF and Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya (AIAI), organized themselves into different constituencies across...
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forces to successfully expel an Islamist extremist group linked to Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya that had taken over Bosaso, a prominent port city and the commercial...
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Ali Mohamed Rage (category Al-Shabaab (militant group) members)
known as Ali Dheere, is the head spokesman for the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab, and a member of the group’s supreme council. Accounts of Ali Mohamed...
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Hizbul Islam (section Defeat by Al-Shabaab 2009-2010)
chairman of the group. Later became Al-Shabaab's spiritual leader. Advance of the Islamic Courts Union Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya Al-Shabaab (Somalia) Islamic Courts...
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safest areas for much of the 1990s. The militant religious group al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) also rose to power in the region later, taking over the city...
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Mukhtar Robow (category Al-Shabaab (militant group) members)
Khartoum in Sudan. He worked for the al-Haramain Foundation in the early 1990s before joining Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya and fought with them until their disintegration...
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The currently active jihadist groups in Somalia derive from the Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya group active during the 1990s. In July 2006, a Web-posted message...
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the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, 2019- al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, a Somali Islamist group AiAi, a character in the Super Monkey Ball...
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full-scale civil war. During 1992, the Ethiopian government attacked Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI), a rising Islamist political-military group in the Ogaden...
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police apprehended a suspect whom they claimed was a member of Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya. Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency...
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city during 1993. A major Somali Islamist militant organization, Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, also began participating in the insurgency against UN forces in...
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existing Somali political entities in the Ogaden, the ONLF and Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya (AIAI), organized themselves into different constituencies across...
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Mogadishu and other Somali cities and that they have strong links to Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya." In July 2003, at the Somali National Reconciliation Conference...
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claimed Jama supported Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya. In January 2002, Ethiopia intervened again, accusing Jama of harboring members of Al-Itihaad—a claim Jama denied...
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on Terror' to justify the operation and claimed Jama supported Al-Itihaad Al-Islamiya. Fighting broke out between forces loyal to Yusuf and Jama during...
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Mahaz al-Itihaad al-Islamiya Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia Harakat al-Shabaab Mujahedeen Hizbul Islam Islamic Courts Union Jabhatul Islamiya Mu'askar...
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2014 Hotel Amalo attack (category Al-Shabaab (militant group) attacks)
pre-attack interview published by Al-Shabaab, Abdule states to have been a member of the Al-Qaida-affiliated Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) group for thirteen...
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